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WikiCup 2010 October newsletter

The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger (submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber (submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows (submissions), William S. Saturn (submissions), Staxringold (submissions) and ThinkBlue (submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata (submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.

Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber (submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold (submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular (submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger (submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke (submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.

The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 03:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 November 2010

News and notes: Foundation's finances, geodata milestone, interim counsel, museum conference

In the news: Airplane construction with Wikipedia, lessons from the strategy project, logic over rhetoric

WikiProject report: Scoring with WikiProject Ice Hockey

Features and admins: Good-lookin' slugs and snails

Arbitration report: Arb resignation during plagiarism discussion; election RfC closing in 2 days

Technology report: Foundation office switches to closed source, secure browsing, brief news

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The Signpost: 8 November 2010

Fundraiser: November 15 launch, emphasis on banner optimization and community involvement

News and notes: Second Wikipedian in Residence, {{citation needed}} for sanity

In the news: WP prose praised, Public Policy update, education debate, WP documentary

WikiProject report: WikiProject California

Features and admins: No, not science fiction—real science

Election report: The countdown begins

Arbitration report: No cases this week; Date delinking sanctions reduced for one party; History ban extended

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 16:31, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup

Thank you for making the WikiCup even better than ever in my prolonged absence :) // Fi nns 23:33, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 November 2010

News and notes: Fundraisers start for Wikipedia and Citizendium; controversial content and leadership

In the news: How big can Wikipedia pictures get?; fundraising season

WikiProject report: Sizzling: WikiProject Bacon

Features and admins: Of lakes and mountains

Dispatches: A guide to the Good Article Review Process

Arbitration report: No cases this week; Amendments filed on Climate Change and Date Delinking; Motion passed on EEML

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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As a relatively new user I found your talk page confusing. Anyway I've responded to your discussion on the main page. thanks for engaging 78.143.204.5 (talk) 02:14, 21 November 2010 (UTC)